Bush moves forward with 'buffer zone' changes
Bush administration officials paved the way Tuesday to revoke parts of a key water quality rule that environmental groups say could greatly limit mountaintop removal mining if it were properly enforced.
The White House and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency signed off on plans by the Interior Department to finalize coal industry-backed changes in a 25-year-old stream protection rule called "the buffer zone rule."
Approval by EPA and the White House Office of Management and Budget clears the way for Interior to publish the final rule well before Dec. 19, the deadline for it to take effect in time to make it tough for the Obama administration to repeal.
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